[78-L] Record torture

[Taylor Bowie]

About 25  years ago,  I laid an Edison Diamond Disk at an angle against the 
curb,  and then drove my car ('84 El Dorado) over the thing.

It broke so fast I don't think the record ever knew what hit it.

What would happen to the average non-laminated 78 it if stayed underwater 
for a few years?


Taylor



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "DAVID BURNHAM" <burnhamd at rogers.com>
To: <78-L at 78online.com>
Sent: Friday, January 06, 2012 11:05 AM
Subject: [78-L] Record torture


Not having anything better to do the other day, I decided to torture a 
record. We were experiencing the coldest day of the season, (-16 degrees 
C.), so I took a standard Victor 78 rpm record in excellent condition and 
placed it naked in a box. I then placed it in my back yard. The box would 
shield it from wind and precipitation but would not protect it from the 
cold. The box was white so it wouldn't absorb any heat from the sun. I 
wanted as much as possible to simulate the situation that the records in my 
outdoor storage units experience. I have stored records in my garage for 
years but one and a half walls of the garage abut the house so some heat 
comes from that. This record suffered further because I took it directly 
from the warm house to the cold outdoors, (the heat variance in the units is 
gradual), and then a couple of days later brought it directly back into the 
warm house. The record survived with flying colours! No damage
 whatsoever! So I guess extreme cold and rapid temperature changes don't 
hurt 78s after all.

If we have another cold spell, this record may spend some more time in the 
box, because -16 isn't by any means the coldest temperature Toronto 
experiences in a normal winter!

db
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